[following-up to my own post] On Monday, 2010-01-18, at 5:56 , Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
We've now done another experiment, on the "text editor with mini- language" approach, thanks to Mark Stosberg, and it turns out that this UI is not usable. (At least not by our standards. I'm sure it is at least as usable as the way git does things, which is not saying much.) Perhaps that could be fixed with documentation changes.
Okay I see from Eric Kow's explanation that the hunk editing feature is *not* an answer to the hunk-splitting wishlist item but is instead a much more powerful and general tool which the user could use to perform hunk-splitting (as well as many other things) if the user could figure out how to use it.
It sounds like this will be the only important feature in darcs which requires the user to actual Read The Fine Manual before they are able to use it. (The rest of the important features of darcs have this delightful property that people who impatiently refuse to read manuals, like me, can still figure out how to use it easily enough.) But it does sound like a very powerful and interesting feature.
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